Zephany Nurse kidnapper Lavona Solomon released from prison
In 2016, Solomon was sentenced to 10 years in prison for kidnapping Nurse as a newborn baby in 1997, but only served seven years of her prison time before being released.
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In 2016, Solomon was sentenced to 10 years in prison for kidnapping Nurse as a newborn baby in 1997, but only served seven years of her prison time before being released.
Lavona Solomon, who kidnapped Nurse as an infant in 1997 and raised her as her own child, will be placed on parole in August, serving the rest of her ten-year sentence in the Community Corrections sytem.
The true story of Celeste and Morne Nurse, whose baby daughter Zephany was stolen from hospital three days after her birth in Cape Town, 1997. For 17 years, the devastated couple searched for Zephany. Then in 2015, their second daughter, Cassidy, enrolled in a new school, where other pupils pointed out an older pupil, Miche Solomon, who looked much like her. DNA samples confirmed that Miche was Zephany, and, incredibly, she had grown up only a few miles from the Nurse's home. The Nurses were overjoyed; however, the arrest and trial of the seamstress whom Miche knew as her loving mother...
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